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Raila’s Statehouse race application was a prank, says ODM

Hassan Joho, Raila Odinga and Wycliffe Oparanya. [Courtesy]

ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga’s application to face-off with his two deputies for the Presidential ticket was a prank, Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna has stated.

A day after the National Elections Board (NEB) chairperson Prof Catherin Mumma made public the list of three aspirants seeking to contest on the party’s ticket, Sifuna clarified that it was a prank being April Fool’s’ Day.

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